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  • Published: 15 June 2004
  • ISBN: 9781590170670
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $32.99
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The World I Live In



Out of print for nearly a century, The World I Live In is Helen Keller's most personal and intellectually adventurous work—one that transforms our appreciation of her extraordinary achievements. Here this preternaturally gifted deaf and blind young woman closely describes her sensations and the workings of her imagination, while making the pro-vocative argument that the whole spectrum of the senses lies open to her through the medium of language. Standing in the line of the works of Emerson and Thoreau, The World I Live In is a profoundly suggestive exercise in self-invention, and a true, rediscovered classic of American literature.

This new edition of The World I Live In also includes Helen Keller's early essay "Optimism," as well as her first published work, "My Story," written when she was twelve.

  • Published: 15 June 2004
  • ISBN: 9781590170670
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

About the author

Helen Keller

Helen Keller, born in 1880, was the first deaf-blind graduate of Radcliffe College. Later, she became a high-profile socialist, and throughout her life she was a strong advocate for the blind and deaf communities, visiting over thirty-five countries and publishing fourteen books about her experiences, which have been translated into more than fifty languages. She died in 1968.

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